take back birth names

Have you got divorced or ended your civil partnership and want to change your name? If your birth name or the name you used before marriage or civil partnership was not a surname (married name or civil partnership name), you have the following options:...

Have you got divorced or ended your civil partnership and want to change your name? If your birth name or the name you used before marriage or civil partnership was not a surname (married name or civil partnership name), you have the following options:

You can take back your maiden name or the name you used until your married name was determined.
You can precede or add the following names to the married name:
- your maiden name or
- the name used at the time of the declaration on the determination of the married name.

You can discard an attendant name prefixed or appended during marriage.

Make an appointment online, locations Hamburg Service

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Application status ID / passport

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Important notes

Prerequisites

divorce or
dissolution of the civil partnership

Documents required

passport or identity card,
In addition, if you visit the registry office that keeps the marriage register:
- final divorce decree,
In addition, if you visit another registry office:
- certified printout from the marriage register and the final divorce decree or
- certified printout from the marriage register with registered divorce.

Procedure & Fees

Procedure

You can submit the declaration of the name change to any registry office. You must have them authenticated by either a notary or registrar. The declaration becomes effective as soon as it arrives at the registry office.
You will receive a certificate of name change.
The marriage register and the birth register are updated.

Fees

no

Legal notes

Legal basis

Section 46 Civil Status Ordinance (PStV)

§ 41 Civil Status Act (PStG)

§ 1355 paragraph 5 Civil Code (BGB)

Section 3 (3) of the Civil Partnership Act (LPartG)